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January 25, 2023 Uncategorized

SQL engine and PL/SQL functions

A common pattern I see in database code is the use of a PL/SQL package to hold constants to be

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December 6, 2022 Uncategorized

Faster operations with CLOBs

Somewhere around version 9 (maybe before, maybe later…all so long ago 😀) the distinction between CLOB and VARCHAR2 became less

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November 9, 2022 Uncategorized

From stateful to stateless PL/SQL

I’ve done a lot of talks mainly around the tremendous performance benefits you can get just by employing a little

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July 8, 2022 Uncategorized

PL/SQL – choosing the BEST data type

Just a little bit of Friday fun with PL/SQL data types for this post. Let’s explore the performance differences when

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May 12, 2022 Uncategorized

The Fractional Part of a TIMESTAMP. Be careful.

This discovery came in from an AskTom customer but I figured it’s worth passing on to any PL/SQL programmers out

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April 22, 2022 Uncategorized

Implementing dynamic partitions AND subpartitions

One of the cool things to come out of the partitioning option many moons ago was the feature known as

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April 19, 2022 Uncategorized

DBMS_OUTPUT … A (formatting) love story

What happens when you want to serenade your partner with a romantic ditty, but you’re a database professional as well?

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April 13, 2022 Uncategorized

My poor developers! PLSQL is going to be so hard on them!

So I started all of this by talking about how PLSQL is going to give you a performance boost, just

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April 12, 2022 Uncategorized

A little bit of PLSQL and a little bit of network

So after my post yesterday about PL/SQL being a no-brainer to get an easy boost to application performance, there was

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April 11, 2022 Uncategorized

A little bit of PLSQL can be a huge win

I rarely blog about PLSQL for a very simple reason. It quickly becomes like Halloween night because all the ghouls

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